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| Title | Annotations for Power Relations on Email Threads |
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| Authors | Vinodkumar Prabhakaran, Huzaifa Neralwala, Owen Rambow and Mona Diab |
| Abstract | Social relations like power and influence are difficult concepts to define, but are easily recognizable when expressed. In this paper, we describe a multi-layer annotation scheme for social power relations that are recognizable from online written interactions. We introduce a typology of four types of power relations between dialog participants: hierarchical power, situational power, influence and control of communication. We also present a corpus of Enron emails comprising of 122 threaded conversations, manually annotated with instances of these power relations between participants. Our annotations also capture attempts at exercise of power or influence and whether those attempts were successful or not. In addition, we also capture utterance level annotations for overt display of power. We describe the annotation definitions using two example email threads from our corpus illustrating each type of power relation. We also present detailed instructions given to the annotators and provide various statistics on annotations in the corpus. |
| Topics | Corpus (creation, annotation, etc.), Dialogue |
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Annotations for Power Relations on Email Threads |
| Bibtex | @InProceedings{PRABHAKARAN12.1006, author = {Vinodkumar Prabhakaran and Huzaifa Neralwala and Owen Rambow and Mona Diab}, title = {Annotations for Power Relations on Email Threads}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Eight International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12)}, year = {2012}, month = {may}, date = {23-25}, address = {Istanbul, Turkey}, editor = {Nicoletta Calzolari (Conference Chair) and Khalid Choukri and Thierry Declerck and Mehmet Uğur Doğan and Bente Maegaard and Joseph Mariani and Asuncion Moreno and Jan Odijk and Stelios Piperidis}, publisher = {European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}, isbn = {978-2-9517408-7-7}, language = {english} } |